Journal of a Tour in the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland in 1800W. Blackwood and Sons, 1903 - 318 pages |
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... trees , is the only picturesque object . From Linlithgow to Falkirk the view is equally uniform and equally confined . The copses of trees are more numerous , and the ridges and declivities of the Ochil hills appear more distinctly ...
... trees , is the only picturesque object . From Linlithgow to Falkirk the view is equally uniform and equally confined . The copses of trees are more numerous , and the ridges and declivities of the Ochil hills appear more distinctly ...
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... trees . By favour of Mr Cadell of Carron Park , we had a view of the very curious museum formed at Kinnaird by Abyssinian Bruce . I was pleased to find the most unequivocal proofs of his journey to Abyssinia , and of his acquaintance ...
... trees . By favour of Mr Cadell of Carron Park , we had a view of the very curious museum formed at Kinnaird by Abyssinian Bruce . I was pleased to find the most unequivocal proofs of his journey to Abyssinia , and of his acquaintance ...
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... tree and exhibits the reticulations of the bark , with tints of charcoal . The species of wood might have been determined from these reticulations . From Kinnaird we proceeded by Tor- woodhead to Stirling . I approached Bannockburn with ...
... tree and exhibits the reticulations of the bark , with tints of charcoal . The species of wood might have been determined from these reticulations . From Kinnaird we proceeded by Tor- woodhead to Stirling . I approached Bannockburn with ...
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... trees . had a good deal of conversation con- cerning Scotish songs and literature , Ossian's poems , & c . Mr Ramsay mentioned that Dr Stewart of Luss had never been able was published in 1888 , entitled Scotland and Scotsmen in the ...
... trees . had a good deal of conversation con- cerning Scotish songs and literature , Ossian's poems , & c . Mr Ramsay mentioned that Dr Stewart of Luss had never been able was published in 1888 , entitled Scotland and Scotsmen in the ...
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... trees , which rise in successive gradations . We walked along the Teith in the evening to examine the vestiges of a Roman camp . I must confess , however , that they were by no means striking , and we saw nothing which determined them ...
... trees , which rise in successive gradations . We walked along the Teith in the evening to examine the vestiges of a Roman camp . I must confess , however , that they were by no means striking , and we saw nothing which determined them ...
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ancient appearance Appin ascended Atholl basalt Ben Nevis bleak brown Campbell cascade Castle cave chasm chiefly clan columns Complaynt of Scotland considerable consists covered with wood Craig dark declivity descended district Dr John Leyden Dr Leyden Dunkeld Edin Edinburgh edition elegant eminences entirely feet Fingal Fingalians Gaelic Glen Glen Croe Glenelg granite gray green heath heathy hills height Highlands houses Inverness irregular island Isles Kerrera Knoydart lake Leith Hall Letter likewise Lismore Loch Awe Loch Fyne Loch Nevis Loch Shiel Lochaber lofty Lond MacGregors MacNicol miles mist Moideart Morven moss mountain Mull numerous Oban Ossian passed picturesque poems precipice proceeded procured promontory ridges river road rocky romantic round ruins scene scenery schistus Scotish Scotland seems shore side of Loch Sir Walter Scott situation Staffa steep stones strath Taynish tower town trees vale valley vitrified wall wild winding
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Page 283 - Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour ; A distant and a deadly shore Has LEYDEN'S cold remains ! XII.
Page 136 - Be thou near, to learn the song; future times shall hear of me ! The sons of the feeble hereafter will lift the voice on Cona ; and, looking up to the rocks, say, 'Here Ossian dwelt'.
Page 136 - The sons of the feeble hereafter will lift the voice on Cona ; and, looking up to the rocks, say, 'Here Ossian dwelt'. They shall admire the chiefs of old, the race that are no more ! while we ride on our clouds, Malvina ! on the wings of the roaring winds. Our voices shall be heard, at times, in the desert ; we shall sing on the breeze of the rock.
Page ix - It is remarkable, that after long and painful research in quest of original passages of the poems of Ossian, he adopted an opinion more favourable to their authenticity than has lately prevailed in the literary world. But the confessed infidelity of Macpherson must always excite the strongest suspicion on this subject. Leyden composed, with his usual facility, several detached poems upon highland traditions, all of which have probably perished, excepting a ballad, founded upon the romantic legend...
Page v - The Editor dismisses this volume from his hands with mingled pleasure and regret ; pleasure, from the recollection of several agreeable hours spent in its arrangement, during the intervals of severer study ; and regret at bidding adieu to the investigation of Scotish literary 'antiquities, a subject which he can never expect to resume.
Page 136 - Cona ; let me think on the days of other years. And bring me the harp, O maid ! that I may touch it, when the light of my soul shall arise. Be thou near, to learn the song; future times shall hear of me ! The sons of the feeble hereafter will lift the voice on Cona ; and, looking up to the rocks, say, 'Here...
Page 279 - ... lakes/ and rapid torrents, over which the thunders and lightnings, and tempests, and rains, of heaven, exhaust their terrific rage, wrought upon the creative powers of the imagination, and from these appearances, the Highlanders " were naturally led to ascribe every disaster to the influence of superior powers, in whose character the predominating feature necessarily was malignity towards the human race.
Page 281 - A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland, to the Lakes of Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire; and to the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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Page ix - Corrievrekin, inscribed' to Lady Charlotte Campbell, and published in the third volume of the Border Minstrelsy, which appeared at the distance of about a twelvemonth after the two first volumes of that work.1 The opening of this ballad exhibits a power of numbers, •which, for the mere melody of sound, has seldom been excelled in English poetry.